Hi Gold -- You started this thread in the 'How-To's & Support' forum area. There's a sticky thread 4th from the top on that list that describes Rodney's technique further -- http://www.airforums.com/forums/f138...rum-37729.html. Rodney first brought the better Google technique to the mods' attention; I believe member TomW raised it first overall AFAIK.

Search usefulness on the current edition of Forums' vBulletin software almost is limited to single key words. Problems with search at least make it useful when you 'advanced' search:

if you know who may have posted on a subject

know a specific word that was in the thread title

are looking for a specific post within long threads

I'm sure I use it other ways too... I use it for > 75% of my searches surprisingly.

I searched for "search help" but it didn't work, so I missed that popst. ha ha

Just joking.

By the time I got frustrated at all the negative hits (search results that included results that shouold not have been included) I stopped reading and started speaking (so to speak).

Still, a great forum here.

tks all.

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Originally Posted by CanoeStream

Hi Gold -- You started this thread in the 'How-To's & Support' forum area. There's a sticky thread 4th from the top on that list that describes Rodney's technique further -- http://www.airforums.com/forums/f138...rum-37729.html. Rodney first brought the better Google technique to the mods' attention; I believe member TomW raised it first overall AFAIK.

Search usefulness on the current edition of Forums' vBulletin software almost is limited to single key words. Problems with search at least make it useful when you 'advanced' search:

if you know who may have posted on a subject

know a specific word that was in the thread title

are looking for a specific post within long threads

I'm sure I use it other ways too... I use it for > 75% of my searches surprisingly.

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